CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2014, 29 September 1892, Page 29

CASUALTIES.

A shocking accidenb occurred at Otahuhu railway station on the 21st, which resulted in the instantaneous death of Mrs Catherine Rowe, wife of Mr Rowe, an employe of Mr John Hall, storekeeper, Otahuhu. Mrs Rowe had been in Auckland on business, and was returning home. In alighting in the dark she fell while the train was, moving, and was almost decapitated and had her arms and legs mangled. She leaves no family. Tthe three-year-old son of Mr James, farmer, of the Pyramids, died on Wednesday from injuries received from the kick of a horse. A miner named Frank Creehon was killed in his tunnel claim at Stafford, West Coast, one day last week. He was last seen on Monday. As he was not seen aboub on Tuesday or Wednesday this occasioned surprise^ and on Thursday his hut and claim were examined. The hut was found locked, and on entering the tunnel ib was discovered some of ib had fallen in. A large relief parby ab once seb bo work, and by 2 in the morning reached the body. The timber of the tunnel had given way, and death must have been almost instantaneous.

Mr John Sidey, of Caversham, and his groom were thrown out of a buggy near the Newmarket Hotel, Princes street, on Saturday afbernoon, owing to their horse suddenly becoming fractious. Mr Sidey, besides getting his ear partly severed, sustained some serious injuries to the head. It is stated, by one who saw the accident, that the horse was kicking at the time Mr Sidey fell out, and that the animal struck him on the head, which is the most probable way to account for the injury inflicted. The driver was fortunate enough to escape with a severe shaking only, and pursued the horse, which bolted along the street and along the St. Kilda road. Mr Sidey was attended by Dr Hocken, and the injuries are not of a nature to cause alarm.

A young man named Andrew Wright met with an accidenb at Palmerston about 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd. He was driving two horses attached to a dray from Palmerston to Goodwood (where he resides with his parents) when the winkers fell off the shaft horse. The horses immediately bolted, and the young fellow in jumping off the dray fell in front of one of the wheels, which passed over him about the shoulders. He was removed to a house close by, and medical aid called in. The body of a Chinaman named Lock Chong Sing, who for some weeks past has been missing from Cromwell, was found on Sunday in the Clutha river, at Coal Creek. A young man named Alexander Dickie met with a severe accident on Tuesday near Catersham. He was driving a coal cart with two horses attached, and it is surmised that when he struck ab the leader the shaft horse kicked out and struck him on the face. He was picked up by two gentlemen who found him lying on the road, and conveyed to the hospital. On arrival there his injuries were found to be of a peculiarly painful nature. The upper if not both jaws and the nose are broken, and the face cut about in a terrible manner. Notwithstanding the character of the injuries, it is not thought that they are such as to cause immediate apprehension as to the man's ultimate recovery.